Xuande

Chapter 51 Everyone Has No Choice
Yuan Shu is the second son of the Yuan family, younger than Yuan Ji and Yuan Shao.

But because of the birth of the second son, his status is still better than Yuan Shao's. In the future, when the family business is divided, the big head will definitely belong to Yuan Ji, but Yuan Shu will not have nothing.

Therefore, although Yuan Shu would still call Yuan Shao his elder brother in public, the relationship between the two was delicate in private, and Yuan Shu basically despised Yuan Shao.

Because they tried their best not to let outsiders see that the two sides were at odds, so Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu still had some scruples about each other.

Earlier, Yuan Shao started to manage his own reputation. Yuan Shu was still working in Luoyang as "Defending Ghosts in the Road", fighting cockfights with a group of rich and noble children. He didn't practice virtue and had a bad reputation.

In the past few years, I don't know if they have become enlightened, and they have begun to compromise their corporals to manage their own reputation and influence, so some scholars are tempted to join Yuan Shu's sect, wanting to hug their thighs.

Yuan Shu began to compromise his reputation as a corporal, so he would inevitably have some disputes with Yuan Shao in terms of business scope. Although the two tried their best to avoid direct conflicts, seeing Liu Bei's momentum for Yuan Shao getting bigger and bigger, Yuan Shu didn't care about that. too much.

Yuan Shu's closest confidant is named Yang Hong.

Yang Hong suggested to Yuan Shu that Liu Bei should be the first to be a scholar in Luoyang. Liu Bei has a great reputation, strong ability, and excellent skills. Behind him is an ancient text teacher and practical officials represented by Lu Zhi. powerful.

Therefore, we must try our best to win over Liu Bei and the forces behind him, so that we can overtake Yuan Shao in a corner.

Otherwise, it would be very unfavorable for Yuan Shu to watch Liu Bei build a reputation for Yuan Shao, and more and more scholars from outside the circle, especially those from the ancient literature school, would follow Liu Bei into Yuan Shao's sphere of influence.

Originally, Yuan Shu was not as attractive as Yuan Shao because of his late start and bad reputation. If he couldn't get reliable talents to help him build his reputation, he would completely become Yuan Shao's foil.

At that time, the new generation of the Yuan family will be the first to promote the eldest son Yuan Ji, and the second will be Yuan Shao instead of him, Yuan Shu, which does not sound very good.

After all, he is the legitimate son.

After all, Yuan Shao is a concubine—even if he adopts the name of a concubine, he is still a concubine.

Yuan Shu thought it was indeed the case, and he really couldn't tolerate Yuan Shao, a bastard, stepping on his head, so he felt that it was indeed right to do so.

But regarding how to win over Liu Bei, Yuan Shu couldn't think of a good way for a while.

"Since Liu Bei has already taken refuge with my brother...brother concubine, what should I do to win him over and let him take refuge in me? Although my concubine brother is not a son-in-law, it is not easy for Liu Bei to think about it. "

Yang Hong smiled slightly.

"Liu Bei was born in a poor family, but he came to Luoyang after a lot of hard work. What he seeks must be famous all over the world, high-ranking officials and generous salary. If he knows what he wants and gives him what he wants, he will surely Dedicated to the highway."

Yuan Shu thought for a while and frowned slightly.

"Will my concubine not give it to him?"

"Brother Ling is living in seclusion and has never held an official position in the court, but you have some official contacts in the official position of the court, which is an advantage, and even if brother Ling has promised, you only need to give more, isn't it all right? "

"Then how do I know what my concubine brother gave him?"

"That's not easy? An invitation to invite him to come to the house to attend a banquet, and hand it over to me during the banquet, and I will definitely ask you why."

Yang Hong was full of determination in his heart.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed and patted Yang Hong on the shoulder: "With you by my side, I don't have to worry about anything."

Yang Hong was overjoyed, and then he personally wrote the invitation card and asked someone to send it to Liu Bei, inviting Liu Bei to come to Yuan Shu's mansion for a banquet.

Yuan Shu and Yang Hong thought they could handle Liu Bei's needs, but they didn't expect that since Liu Bei had his eye on Yuan Shao, he would not change his family.

This is not only a realistic consideration, but also many plans for the future.

Once the unimagined path fails, then Liu Bei must accept the reality, seamlessly switch his life goal to the route of fighting for hegemony, and start the mode of being a hero in troubled times.

In the future, Yuan Shao will gain a foothold in Hebei, while Yuan Shu will gain a foothold in Runan and Huainan.

Therefore, Yuan Shao is more in line with Liu Bei's interests.

Liu Bei is from Youzhou.

The real end of the Eastern Han Dynasty is not about playing games, but focusing on a grass belly with golden horns and silver edges. Although Youzhou is indeed a corner of the Han Dynasty, the north of Youzhou is not an insurmountable fog of war. state.

That is, there are really a large number of foreign nationalities.

Xianbei, Karasuma, and Southern Huns, some lived outside the territory of the Han Dynasty, and some lived together with the Han people in the border areas, and none of them were easy to get along with.

Aggressive, martial, and disobedient, everyone has mingled together for many years, and people die every year because of these frictions and fights. The situation is big or small, and the number of dead people is more or less.

Because of these conditions, Youzhou's economic development and population growth are far inferior to those in the Central Plains, and its war potential is also far inferior to that of Hebei and the Central Plains.

Therefore, the theory of grass belly with golden horns and silver borders cannot be applied to the actual historical situation.

But even so, because Liu Bei is from Youzhou, so if troubled times are really inevitable, starting a family in Youzhou is still his best choice.

In this era where the county is the country, people almost treat people from other counties as foreigners, let alone people from other states, and they are almost completely untrustworthy.

Every outsider who wants to gain a firm foothold in the local area needs to compromise with the locals, get married, strengthen ties, and become a family, so that they can be accepted by the locals.

Just like Cao Cao, he started in Yuzhou in the Central Plains, which can be called the place of the Fourth World War, but he still chose here because Qiao County in Yuzhou is his hometown, where he has the deepest family roots and network of connections. Good choice.

Yuan Shu also chose to raise troops in his hometown in Runan, where he has the deepest family roots of the Yuan family in Runan for him to use, allowing him to easily pull up a powerful military force and become the overlord.

And the reason why Uncle Liu Huang from another time and space raised troops in Jingzhou was mainly because of his humble background, he failed to gain a foothold in Youzhou, wandered around for most of his life, and couldn't stand anywhere. He was over half a hundred years old, and finally he relied on Zhuge Liang's help in Jingzhou Stand firm.

To put it bluntly, it wasn't that Uncle Liu Huang didn't want to gain a foothold in Youzhou. Uncle Liu Huang had defected to Gongsun Zan at the very beginning. He wanted to gain a foothold in Youzhou, but neither he nor Gongsun Zan had very good luck.

And this Liu Bei will obviously not follow the old path of Uncle Liu Huang.

If the path he wants to take cannot be followed in the past nine years, then Liu Bei has no choice but to choose the route of fighting for hegemony. After Liu Hong died and Luoyang was in chaos, he returned to Youzhou to organize troops. As a Youzhou native, he didn't believe that he couldn't occupy a place in Youzhou.

Moreover, as a frontier, Youzhou rarely has noble clans, and Lu Zhi is considered a top player in Youzhou. There are not many big tycoons like the Gongsun family, but small and medium tycoons run everywhere. Liu Bei himself is also a member of Zhuo County. Powerful.

In this case, Liu Bei can integrate Youzhou's local resources at the lowest cost, and establish a separatist regime with overall combat capabilities that operates with himself as the core.

And he followed Yuan Shao, just wanting to use Yuan Shao's power to develop in Youzhou in the early stage, and build his own powerful army by conquering the Xiongnu, Karasuma, and Xianbei.

Later on...

That depends on the process and development of history, and Liu Bei himself doesn't know what's going on in the future.

Individual efforts are important, but so is the course of history.

Where to raise troops, sometimes it is not something that can be decided by a single person. The background actually limits the power of choice for most people, or we have no choice at all.

With Liu Bei's background, no matter how you look at it, choosing Yuan Shao is the most suitable.

Therefore, he would never pay attention to Yuan Shu. He had nothing to say to this dead bone in the tomb, and if he said a word to him, there was a risk that his IQ would be lowered by him.

He actually wants to usurp Han and proclaim himself emperor before the world is settled!

Can you just be so anxious that you can't bear it?

What else is there to say?
(End of this chapter)